Resize dialog message (JOptionPane) for long sentence with fixed width

swordartist picture swordartist · Feb 27, 2014 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

I'm trying to resize the height of the dialog box (JOptionPane) for long sentence with hyperlink.

My code is ..

public class DialogTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    JTextPane jtp = new JTextPane();
    Document doc = jtp.getDocument();
    for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
        doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), " Hello Java World ", new SimpleAttributeSet());
        if ((3 == i) || (7 == i) || (15 == i)) {
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), " Hello Java World ", new SimpleAttributeSet());
            SimpleAttributeSet attrs = new SimpleAttributeSet();
            StyleConstants.setUnderline(attrs, true);
            StyleConstants.setForeground(attrs, Color.BLUE);
            String text = "www.google.com";
            URL url = new URL("http://" + text);
            attrs.addAttribute(HTML.Attribute.HREF, url.toString());
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), text, attrs);
        }
    }
    JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(jtp);
    jsp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(480, 150));
    jsp.setBorder(null);

    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, jsp, "Title", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
}}

If I don't set the preferred size, that dialog is gonna be really long, and it's not readable. So, I want to fix the width to 480.

And, I want to adjust height depends on the length of the text.

If I run this code, I see the vertical scrollbar. But I don't want to show that scrollbar and adjust the height of the dialog.

Answer

Sharcoux picture Sharcoux · Feb 28, 2014

To fix the width and adapt the height, I personally use this trick : You fix an arbitrary height and the targeted width with setSize, and then get the expected height with getPreferredSize() :

jtp.setSize(new Dimension(480, 10));
jtp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(480, jtp.getPreferredSize().height));

The full code would be :

public class DialogTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    JTextPane jtp = new JTextPane();
    Document doc = jtp.getDocument();
    for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
        doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), " Hello Java World ", new SimpleAttributeSet());
        if ((3 == i) || (7 == i) || (15 == i)) {
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), " Hello Java World ", new SimpleAttributeSet());
            SimpleAttributeSet attrs = new SimpleAttributeSet();
            StyleConstants.setUnderline(attrs, true);
            StyleConstants.setForeground(attrs, Color.BLUE);
            String text = "www.google.com";
            URL url = new URL("http://" + text);
            attrs.addAttribute(HTML.Attribute.HREF, url.toString());
            doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), text, attrs);
        }
    }
    //JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane(jtp);
    //jsp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(480, 150));
    //jsp.setBorder(null);
    jtp.setSize(new Dimension(480, 10));
    jtp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(480, jtp.getPreferredSize().height));

    //JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, jsp, "Title", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, jtp, "Title", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
}}